Synopsis

Pierre leads the Noetic Society Parmenides study group through another session. Today we read

Synopsis

A Wednesday afternoon with Pierre and Book 8 of Plato’s Republic, focusing on the enigmas of ‘perfect number’ and ‘perfect birth’.

Highlights

• ChrisC’s question about an analogy
  • Magnitude:Multitude:: Definition:Division
• Republic, Book 8
  • Why did Plato organize the book the way he did?
  • A psychology of Plato: the 4 (or 5) categories of human constitutions
  • Better and worse births
  • Perfect Number and Perfect Birth
  • the absurdity of Book 8 on a physical level
  • descending from aristocratic (philosophical) constitution to oligarchic, and the compromise(s) made in the transition

Resources

• for the texts we use reading the Republic, see our NS Reading List

Credits

• Recording, title, and highlights: Barbara
• Chart Photo(s): JeffL, Regina

Original Location

https://archive.org/details/20201111NSPRM

Usage License

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License

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More Info

• The NS Parmenides Study Group
• Plato's Parmenides: The Juan and Maria Balboa Translation
• Pierre Grimes and Philosophical Midwifery
• The Noetic Society
• The Pierre Grimes and the Noetic Society collection here on archive.org.

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